Every device, connected and talking
Analysers on the bench, monitors and ventilators at the bedside, the fridge and the generator that keep them running. Whatever the machine already speaks, its readings reach the record without anyone retyping them, and keep arriving when the network does not.
The problem
The numbers are already there. Someone types them again.
Almost every machine in a hospital produces a perfectly good reading and then hands it to a person with a pen. The analyser prints it and a technologist retypes it into the lab system. The monitor at the bedside shows it and a nurse copies it onto an observation chart every hour. That is where the day goes, and where the errors come from, a transposed digit on a viral load, a reading filed against the wrong patient, a machine that has been down since Tuesday and nobody upstream knows.
Both directions
Results out, orders in.
The connection runs both ways. Finished results leave the analyser for wherever they are needed, and the next test order arrives at the bench without anyone retyping it.
- Serial, HL7 v2, ASTM, file drop, or a modern API: whatever the analyser already speaks
- Orders arrive from the lab system and clear themselves when the run completes
- No middleware box to buy, license, or maintain
One result, many destinations
Enter it once. It arrives everywhere.
A finished result is usually needed by the lab system, the patient's record, and the national programme at the same time. Each destination is tracked on its own, so one system being down never holds up the others, and never quietly loses a result.
- Every delivery tracked separately, with its own retries
- A failed hand-off is visible rather than silently missing
- Nothing is marked done until the receiving system confirms it
When the network goes
The bench keeps working.
Connectivity in a district hospital is not a given. Results are held on site through an outage and sent the moment the line returns, so an unreliable link never becomes an unreliable record.
- Work carries on while the connection is down
- Everything held on site goes out automatically on reconnect
- Reconciled and accounted for, not just resent
- No usable line at all? The kit brings a managed connection of its own
When there is no line
Some sites have nothing to reconnect to.
Holding results through an outage assumes the outage ends. Where a facility has no usable connection at all, the Hardware Kit brings a managed one of its own, with the data included, so the reporting never waited on the facility's internet in the first place.
Works with what you own
Devices in, systems out.
A wide range of manufacturers and models, with new integrations added regularly. If a device is not on the list, it is usually a matter of days.
Diagnostics
Analysers and point of care
Haematology, chemistry, molecular, immunoassay and rapid tests. Results are verified in the lab system and released signed, the way a result is meant to leave a laboratory.
Clinical devices
Monitoring and imaging
Patient monitors, ventilators, infusion and syringe pumps, fetal monitors, incubators and ultrasound, writing to the patient's record directly. Nothing charted by hand on the hour.
Environment and power
Cold chain, oxygen, supply
Fridges, oxygen concentrators, autoclaves, the generator and the UPS, reporting through low-cost sensors so a failure is an alert rather than a discovery.
How it works
Three steps, and nobody retypes anything.
STEP 1
Connect the device
It finds the machines already on the network and speaks whatever each one speaks. No rewiring, and nothing to replace.
STEP 2
Check the reading
Every reading is validated and put in a common shape as it arrives, so a bad run is caught where it happened rather than downstream.
STEP 3
Send it onward
It goes to the lab system, the patient record and the national programme, each tracked separately until the receiving system confirms it.
Deploy it anywhere
It goes where the instrument is.
On a desktop
Beside the analyser on the bench, on the workstation that is already there. The usual choice for a single lab.
On your server
One deployment covering every instrument in the building, run by your own IT alongside everything else.
At the edge, or in the cloud
A tablet at a field site, or a hosted instance for a network of facilities. Same software, same behaviour.
Proof
Running in the field
Uganda
Interfacing Lab Equipment at Ugandan Hospitals
Seamless integration of 500+ diagnostic machines across 70+ laboratories with automated data flow.
Uganda
Kiruddu National Referral Hospital
End-to-end laboratory digitisation at Uganda's general medicine and surgery referral hospital, with turnaround cut by 65 percent.
Free to use
Download it and connect your first device.
MedX Automation is free to download and run, on Windows or Ubuntu. There is no licence to buy and no middleware box to rent.